Le Musée imaginaire d’Henri Langlois — Cinémathèque française — Exhibition — Slash Paris

Ces films constituent la première séance du Cercle du Cinéma, ciné-club fondé par Henri Langlois et Georges Franju, en décembre 1935.

— La Chute de la maison Usher de Jean Epstein (1928)
— Le Cabinet du Docteur Caligari de Robert Wiene (1919)
— La Volonté du mort de Paul Lenni (1927)

For the Palais des Congrès’ inauguration in 1973, Henri Langlois imagined a program of non-stop cinema shown simultaneously in all the building’s rooms. The weekend of the 12/13 April will, from midday to midnight, recreate this moment in 3 of the Cinémathèque française’s rooms.

Following the conference, at 21.30, the showing of a film selected by the conference organiser: “Solitude” by Paul Fejos.

Hérité de Malraux and his imaginary museum, the relationship between Langlois and cinema was best shown by “Les Histoire(s) du cinéma” by Jean Luc Godard, a manner both melancholic as well as phenomenologic of envisaging the living memory of what was the art of a century.

Conferences, lectures, round tables and screenings. A day which brings together historians and individuals from this historical episode, foreign and French directors who, through contact with this singular “school”, learnt the history of cinema and also gave it a future.